While the White House may have been the first home John knew, New York City was his adulthood playground. Considered by many to be “America’s Prince” JFK Jr was the ultimate New Yorker, regularly covered by the local New York media – most notably by New York Magazine. Reading through the NYMag archives, an intimate portrait of John John’s life comes together that tells the story of a young man pegged for greatness yet determined to be good – a story that ended way too soon.

To celebrate the launch of I AM JFK Jr. on Spike TV, we re-digitized 15 articles from the NYMag archives and re-tooled the NYMag.com homepage to only feature these articles. The site was re-designed for one-day to reflect the magazine’s look and feel from 1996 – the height of John’s star power.